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Forbidden Worlds #37 (1955)
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In "One Exciting Knight!", bumbling Frankie Nesbitt stumbles into a magical adventure when a head injury during a school play rehearsal sends him back to the year 516, where he briefly joins the Knights of the Round Table and is handed the legendary sword Excalibur to face a dragon. Waking up back in the present, Frankie can’t believe his wild experience—until he realizes he’s still clutching the very sword he was given in his dream.
In "Step by Step---," struggling writer Alex Stone stumbles into a surreal twist when a dose of experimental medicine sends him into a dream that births a story so vivid, it becomes his reality. Suddenly famous and wealthy, he’s on a honeymoon in Italy with his new bride—only to find himself trapped in the very plot he once imagined. As danger closes in, Alex must unravel the eerie connection between his fiction and his life, racing to rewrite a fate he never meant to live.
In "Journey Into the Past!" from Forbidden Worlds #37 (1955), Jo arrives at the Lawrence Estate to claim an inheritance, only to be met with doubt over her identity. That night, she dreams of her ancestor Margaret Anders Lawrence in 1704, witnessing her hide a wedding license with Roger Lawrence in a secret vault—only to find the same document waiting for her in the present.
In "Cyclone!" from *Forbidden Worlds* #37 (1955), three cowboys on a late-night train share a strange, vivid dream of the fabled horse Cyclone—each thrown clean off its back in terror. When they wake, the car is shaking and the conductor bursts in, baffled by the sound of a whinnying horse echoing through the silent rail car.